# connection_options() inconsistency

Richard Connamacher (phantom@baymoo.sfsu.edu)
Thu, 9 May 1996 19:56:58 PDT

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    At 7:36 PM 5/9/96, David Morris wrote:
    >At 09:22 PM 5/9/96 -0500, phantom wrote:
    >>[just freshly connected to my character]
    >>;connection_options(player)
    >>=> {{"binary", 0}, {"flush-command", ".flush"}, {"hold-input", 0},
    >>{"client-echo", 0}}
    >>;set_connection_option(player, "client-echo", 0)
    >>=> 0
    >>
    >>I don't understand that.
    >> [snip]
    >>
    >>Shouldn't the client-echo connection option be 1 by default?
    >>
    >
    >No, read the changelog (1.7.9alpha1) and the latest manual...
    >
    >"client-echo" -- (NP_TCP configurations only) sends the Telnet protocol
    >     WON'T ECHO or WILL ECHO commands (depending on whether VALUE is
    >     true or false, respectively)...
    >
    >So 1 means WON'T ECHO and 0 means WILL ECHO

    Hmm.  looks like the changelog has an error, because in practice 1 is WILL
    ECHO and 0 is WON'T ECHO.

    Phantom

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